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Military service
Service number:
669583
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Blackford, of Ainger Apartments, Toronto; husband of Jennie N. Lake Blackford, of 258, Gerrard St. East, Toronto.
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Birch to Blakstad. Mircoform Sequence 10; Volume Number 31829_B034746; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 154 Page 477 of 734 -
Newspaper Clipping
In honoured memory. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Borthwick Blackford
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Borthwick Blackford
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Borthwick Blackford
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Borthwick Blackford
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Borthwick Blackford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 202 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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